What is \u201cAffordance\u201d? It\u2019s Design Thinking terminology summarised as follows – you can look at a product or service and visualise in your mind how it works a great example is of this is the play \u25b6\ufe0f and stop \ud83d\uded1 buttons you can use these to interact with a product or service to start or stop the action, interactivity or stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another example is volume controls on car radio its usually round nob and to turn the volume up you turn the round nob clock wise and the reverse to lower the volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now that you have a simple understanding of what I mean by affordance let\u2019s get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We live in an age of a complex technology spectrum, that is suppose to remove friction and barriers for employees but its actually in many instances making it worse, to achieve more while in some cases through people cultures at companies its driving productivity trends in the wrong direction inclusive of negative affect\u2019s on employee (human) well-being. A recent \u201cThe Economist\u201d article puts the remote workforce working up to a 30% more during the pandemic yet there are productivity inefficiencies, the link to the article is available at – https:\/\/www.economist.com\/business\/2021\/06\/10\/remote-workers-work-longer-not-more-efficiently.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n How does Citrix aim solve some of that complexity in the technology spectrum? It embraces the power of Affordance enabling employees (humans) to work on there own terms to achieve more in meaningful ways through flexible work-styles. Today many talk about a hybrid workforce, its staple founding principle upon which Citrix was built upon and its in its DNA with over 30 years of tenure enabling the hybrid operating model between the physical workplaces, at home or somewhere in between with different marketing lines my favourite – Work is not a place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I know invite you to watch the following 3 minute demonstration where I\u2019ll take a vanilla windows endpoint and I\u2019ll enable Signal Sign-On (SSO) to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) web apps in my example i\u2019ll SSO to Salesforce in several ways to demonstrate the Affordance of Citrix enabling employees (humans) to work on there own terms on any endpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Demonstration of the Employee Affordance powered by Citrix<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n